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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 12 (search)
had ever eaten in the country, with an infinitude of other fruits; and that the lake extended close to the mountains, which were, according to my judgment, fifteen leagues from us. I saw others to the south, not less high than the former; only that they were without snow. The Indians told me it was there we were to go to meet their enemies, and that they were thickly inhabited, and that we must pass by a waterfall, Ticonderoga. which I afterwards saw, and thence enter another lake Lake George. three or four leagues long; and, having arrived at its head, there were four leagues overland to be travelled to pass to a river Hudson River. which flows towards the coast of the Almouchiquois, tending towards that of the Almouchiquois, Indians east of Cape Cod. and they were only two days going there in their canoes, as I understood since from some prisoners we took, who, by means of some Algonquin interpreters who were acquainted with the Iroquois language, conversed freely with